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#41
10-15-2007, 08:56 AM
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Re: country bumpkins vs. city slickers
This is why Boston is the optimal city to live on the outskirts of.
Down the block I have a corner store, liquor store, laundry, pizza place, bar, and mexican place. We have a pool. If we bought a house, we'd have ample parking and a backyard. People have cookouts and get togethers and might even know their neighbors names. There are parks nearby, and the Mass Pike is 5 minutes away and you can be apple picking or skiing or doing any rural thing in less than 30 minutes. I can get to downtown Boston in 30 minutes by T or 15 minutes driving. Now obviously suburban != rural, but other than vast expanses of farm land and shootin coons in your backyard, I feel like it gives you the best of both worlds. The more rural you want, just move a little further out, but I think living in the Brookline/Chestnut Hill/Newton area seems about perfect. 
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#42
10-15-2007, 10:01 AM
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Re: country bumpkins vs. city slickers
I liked Noonan's post alot. My hometown had a population of 2000, and now I live in a city of about 100,000. I give a strong vote for the country bumpkins. I love nature and I don't really like people, so big cities are not the place for me.
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#44
10-15-2007, 10:04 AM
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Re: country bumpkins vs. city slickers
I plan on moving to NYC for a few years to experience the city, but when it comes time to start a family, I'm definitely moving to the suburbs. Not doing so seems like borderline child abuse to me. (exaggeration obviously).
I simply cannot imagine a childhood that didn't include building a tree fort, backyard camping, riding bikes around the neighborhood, playing street hockey in the road, playing in the woods, etc. I want my children to experience all of that too, city kids grow up too fast.
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#46
10-15-2007, 10:08 AM
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Re: country bumpkins vs. city slickers
living in nyc i can take comfort i'm not contribute to global warming by driving cars and living in suburban sprawl.
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#47
10-15-2007, 10:08 AM
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Re: country bumpkins vs. city slickers
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I hate the country, Id rather play on concrete than grass anyday [/ QUOTE ] Are you an eleven year old?
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#48
10-15-2007, 10:08 AM
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Re: country bumpkins vs. city slickers
[ QUOTE ]
I simply cannot imagine a childhood that didn't include building a tree fort, backyard camping, riding bikes around the neighborhood, playing street hockey in the road, playing in the woods, etc. I want my children to experience all of that too, city kids grow up too fast. [/ QUOTE ] I grew up in South Philly, and the only thing I did not do on that list is build a tree house and backyard camping. Plus, I got to walk to the Vet and get into Phillies games in later innings, play stickball, run around under open fire hydrants, etc. Kids have fun anywhere. It's not the Wire just because it's inside the city limits.
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#49
10-15-2007, 10:10 AM
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Re: country bumpkins vs. city slickers
I love the public transportation living in NYC. It ain't the cleanest, and it ain't the easiest to understand, but once you do, traveling is easy. I also I don't need a vehicle, though it becomes more necessary the farther out you get from the city (e.g. outskirts of the outer boroughs).
I also like walking for miles around the city without running out of things to see, be it museums, neighborhoods, many random places to eat if you get hungry, etc.
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#50
10-15-2007, 10:13 AM
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Re: country bumpkins vs. city slickers
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[ QUOTE ] I hate the country, Id rather play on concrete than grass anyday [/ QUOTE ] Are you an eleven year old? [/ QUOTE ] why? are you trying to pick me up via the internet?
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